Objectives

• Define the term “antibiotic resistance.”
• Identify one factor contributing to the current antibiotic resistance crisis.
• State the relationship between microbes and humans.
• Name one of the greatest advances in human health during the past century.

• Match the antimicrobial with its description.
• Specify the decisive advantage of antibiotic use.

• Indicate why antibiotics don’t work against fungi, parasites, and viruses.

Chapter 2: The “Miracle” in Miracle Drugs

Objectives

• Name the pathogenic bacteria that have remained susceptible to penicillin.
• Recognize why syphilis remains a challenge for certain populations around the globe.
• Specify how long current TB treatments last.

• Identify the organism which was the leading cause of infectious disease deaths in the United States prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Identify the deadliest form of a Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in infants.
• Name the microorganism considered the primary or most common cause of necrotizing fasciitis.
• Indicate when large-scale production of penicillin began.
• Identify the additional antimicrobial substances to which microbes are becoming resistant.

• Recognize how antibiotics benefit patients undergoing aggressive cancer chemotherapy.
• List the way in which antibiotics are vital for successful outcomes in bone marrow and other organ transplants.
• Compare the length of time required to cure gastric ulcers with antibiotics to the time required by histamine H2 receptor blockers.
• Identify the disorder not previously associated with a bacterial cause that now is treated with antibiotics.